The project seeks through the use of graphic visualization techniques to deconstruct a film in order to visualize its internal structure. Far from being the strict rules of written language communication, film grammar - which embodies video production knowledge - is comprised of the body of “rules” and conventions that are a product of experimentation; an accumulation of solutions found by everyday practice of the craft. The existence of this grammar makes obvious a vital truth: films are crafted, built and shaped with a purpose in mind. The work aims at exploiting the grammar of film for the purpose of better understand its semantic features. This exploration could also be used to create a model of comparison between different movies. By applying the same approach to different films, visual comparisons of the cinematographic styles of various directors could be made, and the complexity of the structure of their work could be highlighted.

This visual exploration on the movie The Shining by Stanley Kubrick aims to deconstruct its narrative in terms of time, action and colour.
Having extract the frames from the original movie I divided every single shot of the film and separate each one. The shots are used to create a tempo pattern-diagram which gives an overall view of the film’s editing rhythm.

In order to generate a colour pallette of the entire film, a basic colour analysis was attempted by using an arbitrary system for its generation. The sequence of colours reflect the setting of each shot and highlights the difference between scenes.

Colour Analysis: outdoor scenes

Colour Analysis: entire film

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